Democracy Now! has regularly covered the Afghanistan War since it was launched Oct. 7, 2001. Over the years, we have interviewed dozens of independent journalists, civilians living in the conflict zones, scholars, veterans, and antiwar activists.

In New York around ten thousand gathered to march from Union Square park to Times Square yesterday, calling for an end to the military attacks on Afghanistan. A broad New York anti-war coalition called the demonstration several weeks ago in anticipation of US retaliation against the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. But yesterday morning, after the announcement that the US and Britain had begun attacks on targets in Afghanistan,...

As US and British bombs and missiles rained upon Afghanistan, President Bush, British Prime Minster Tony Blair andthe US media stressed the humanitarian aspects of the attack. President Bush said "the oppressed people ofAfghanistan will know the generosity of America and our allies. As we strike military targets, we will also dropfood, medicine, and Supplies to the starving people of Afghanistan." The New York Times ran articles...

The Bush Administration is continuing its massive military buildup in Central Asia in the face of increasing regionalopposition to the use of US military force. Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld is wrapping up his Mideast Tourhaving failed to gain the support of Arab states for the use of their territory as a base for launching attacksagainst Afghanistan. This as 1,000 US special forces troops head for Uzbekistan despite that...

The British newspaper, The Guardian, is reporting that the U.S. has delayed airstrikes on Afghanistan, after key countries in the Middle East expressed doubts about allowing their territory to serve as a base for military operations.

RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, has been fighting for women’s human rights and for a secular government for over 20 years. RAWA was established well before the Taliban came to power. Even in the suffocating political atmosphere of the seventies in Afghanistan, the women of RAWA became involved in improving education and healthcare and political agitation.

NATO yesterday claimed that the U.S. had provided "clear and compelling proof" that Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network were linked to the September 11 attacks. In response, the alliance announced that it was ready to fight with the U.S. in an attack on Afghanistan.

NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson announced today that the United States had presented "clear and compelling evidence" that points "conclusively" to involvement of Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaida network in last month’s attack in New York and Washington.

More than 20,000 anti-war demonstrators, including many anti-globalization activists, took to the streets of Washington DC and San Francisco to protest possible US military action in response to the attacks on US targets earlier this month. In San Francisco, almost 10,000 people converged on a park in San Francisco’s predominately Latino Mission District to denounce the Bush administration’s plans for military intervention in...